Epibiotic organisms inhabiting non-nesting hawksbill sea turtles, Eretmochelys imbricata (Linnaeus, 1766), are described from Mona and Monito Islands, Puerto Rico. Epibiont samples from 105 turtles of shallow (< 40 m) water foraging habitats were collected and identified to the lowest possible taxon. This epibiotic assemblage consisting of at least 4 algal functional groups and 12 animal phyla ...

1Instituto de Pesca-APTA-SAA/SP, Caixa Postal 157, Cananéia, SP 11990-000, Brazil. E-mail: [email protected] (corresponding author) 2Universidade Federal Dos Vales Do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Diamantina, MG 39100-000, Brazil 3Laboratório de Ictiogenética, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, SP 05508-090, Brazil. PCR-RFLP PARA IDENTIFICAÇÃO DE OSTRAS PERLÍFERAS (Pinctada imbr...

Surprisingly, a high frequency of interspecific sea turtle hybrids has been previously recorded in a nesting site along a short stretch of the Brazilian coast. Mitochondrial DNA data indicated that as much as 43% of the females identified as Eretmochelys imbricata are hybrids in this area (Bahia State of Brazil). It is a remarkable find, because most of the nesting sites surveyed worldwide, inc...

Management of species of conservation concern requires knowledge of demographic parameters, such as rates of recruitment, survival, and growth. In the Caribbean, hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) have been historically exploited in huge numbers to satisfy trade in their shells and meat. In the present study, we estimated growth rate of juvenile hawksbill turtles around Anegada, British...

Prior to 2008 and the discovery of several important hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) nesting colonies in the EP (Eastern Pacific), the species was considered virtually absent from the region. Research since that time has yielded new insights into EP hawksbills, salient among them being the use of mangrove estuaries for nesting. These recent revelations have raised interest in the gene...

Hybridization among sea turtle species has been widely reported in the Atlantic Ocean, but their detection in the Pacific Ocean is limited to just two individual hybrid turtles, in the northern hemisphere. Herein, we report, for the first time in the southeast Pacific, the presence of a sea turtle hybrid between the green turtle Chelonia mydas and the hawksbill turtle Eretmochelys imbricata. Th...

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This research was conducted from November 2018 until January 2019 which held at the UPTD Conservation and Supervision of Marine Resources Fisheries in West Sumatera, Pariaman City. The aim is to know hatchling hawksbill sea turtle eggs based on nest depth. method used this study a nonfactorial randomized block design (RBD) consisting 3 treatments replications. were treatment A (with depth 30 cm...